CONFERENCE AGENDA
Location: The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG
Date: Wednesday 30 September 2020
Time: 09.30am - 4.00pm (registration opens at 9.30am)
Lunch and refreshments are included in the delegate package.
Richa Sahay
Community Curator - Automotive, Supply Chain Transport and Emerging Markets
World Economic Forum
Richa Sahay, author of "The Future of the Last Mile Ecosystem" will deliver a keynote address exploring how technologies such as drones, droids and camera-based object tracking can help play a part to reduce urban last-mile delivery emissions, traffic congestion and delivery costs.
Full details of this session will be confirmed in the coming weeks.
Robin Wood
Head of Capital Deployment
Prologis UK
In this session, Robin Woodbridge will talk about how industrial logistics property is having to adapt to meet the needs of occupiers, their employees and changing consumer habits.
He will also explore how emerging technology is transforming a once sleepy industry into a cutting-edge sector where data, sustainability and design combine to provide cleaner, greener spaces which benefit businesses, employees and local communities.
Sandra Roling
Head of EV100
The Climate Group
Sandra is head of The Climate Group’s EV100 initiative, a global leadership platform bringing together major companies committed to accelerating the switch to electric transport to make it ‘the new normal’ by 2030.
She also leads the development of our broader work on electro-mobility and clean transport. Sandra has held various positions in developing The Climate Group’s engagement work with business as well as sub-national governments. She was also part of the founding secretariat for the We Mean Business coalition. Prior to joining The Climate Group, Sandra spent eight years in Brussels, where she led the public affairs team of a German political communications agency and set up its EU office.
Full details of this session will be confirmed in the coming weeks.
Paul Whyte
Managing Director
Best Food Logistics
Paul is a Managing Director at Best Food Logistics and was appointed by the parent company to run a turnaround in June 2017.
Since then, Paul has assembled and led a team that have transformed what was a heavily loss-making business then known as Bidvest Logistics, into an instantly recognisable, service-led and profitable brand. Operating in a poor service industry, Best Food Logistics has successfully differentiated itself through innovating with simple technology that utilises Big Data to lock-in and continually demonstrate exceptional service levels and value to its customers. This has allowed the business to negotiate increased pricing and very long-term contracts across its customer base.
Best Food Logistics now receives glowing recommendations from its customers and is poised for profitable growth. In October 2019, it was announced that Tesco subsidiary Booker Group is to acquire Best Food Logistics.
Full details of this session will be confirmed in the coming weeks.
Santiago Navarro
CEO
Garçon Wines
Santiago is a serial entrepreneur.
His first venture, Vinopic Wines was an online retailer that was the world’s first to use science to rate and score wines for their intrinsic quality. It was while building this business that Santiago realised that the heavy, fragile and spatially inefficient wine bottles of the 19th century were completely unfit for purpose when shipping wines through complex supply chains. This experience led him to develop a 21st century wine bottle and launch Garçon Wines, which is now globally recognised for introducing eco, flat wine bottles.
As CEO and lead co-founder, Santiago is advancing both the wine and packaging industries to be more sustainable through innovative, beautiful, flat bottles and game-changing transit packaging that is much more cost-effective and eco-friendly for the movement of wine. Working from an office that overlooks the British Museum provides extra motivation to target the 35 billion bottles of wine used globally each year in the hope that in the future the only place for the majority of round, glass wine bottles will be in a museum exhibit.
Full details of this session will be confirmed in the coming weeks.
Justin Atkin
Port Representative, UK & Ireland
Antwerp Port Authority
Justin joined Port of Antwerp Authority as Representative for UK & Ireland in September 2018.
Justin has over 25 years’ experience in the ports, shipping and logistics sector working in operational, commercial and general management roles.
His experience includes senior appointments with Associated British Ports including Terminal Manager at the Humber International Terminal, the UK's largest dry bulk facility, and as Head of Commercial (Humber) covering the ports of Immingham, Hull, Goole and Grimsby.
In his role with Port of Antwerp, Justin is responsible for developing a network of relationships with shippers, ports, shipping lines, freight forwarders, shipping agents and other relevant stakeholders, promoting the Port of Antwerp as a gateway to and from the main European centres of production and consumption, but also as a hub-port with connections to more than 1,000 ports globally.
Full details of this session will be confirmed in the coming weeks.
Pierson Broome
Director, Retail Advisory Global
Hitachi Vantara
Focusing specifically upon Retail and all its sub-sectors, Pierson’s experience covers Merchandising, Allocation, Category Management, Fulfillment, Distribution and Logistics omnichannel execution strategy.
He provides the necessary guidance as to how innovation delivers competitive advantage and how a data-centric approach to Retail business is now the new norm, particularly around Online to Offline (O2O) consumer behaviour and optimising the customer/guest experience..
Full details of this session will be confirmed in the coming weeks.
Claire Thompson-Sage
Sustainable Development Coordinator
UPS
Claire is Sustainable Development Co-ordinator at UPS and responsible for managing UPS UK, Ireland & Nordics’ sustainable strategy by collaborating with partners to develop sustainable vehicle and facility solutions.
Claire represents UPS as a member of the Road freight lab project advisory board whilst also advising local authorities on sustainable city logistics.
Her recent projects include the development of electric and hybrid light goods vehicles, E-assist cycle solutions, LNG heavy goods vehicle smart grid technologies and alternative fuels.
Full details of this session will be confirmed in the coming weeks.
